Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba

The Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba is the presiding officer of the provincial legislature.

List of speakers of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba

No.	Portrait	Name Electoral district (Birth–Death)	Term of office		Party		Legislature
			Term start	Term end
1		Joseph Royal MLA for St. Francois Xavier West (1837–1902)	March 15, 1871	March 14, 1872		Government	1st
2		Curtis James Bird MLA for St. Pauls (1838–1876)	February 5, 1873	December 22, 1874		Government
3		Joseph Dubuc MLA for St. Norbert (1840–1914)	March 31, 1875	December 1878		Government	2nd
4		John Wright Sifton MLA for St. Clements (1833–1912)	February 1, 1879	December 1879		Government	3rd
5		Gilbert McMicken MLA for Cartier (1813–1891)	January 21, 1880	December 1882		Liberal-Conservative	4th
6		Alexander Murray MLA for Assiniboia (1839–1913)	April 17, 1883	December 1886		Conservative	5th
7		David Glass MLA for St. Clements (1830–1906)	April 14, 1887	June 1888		Independent	6th
8		William Winram MLA for Manitou (1830–1906)	August 28, 1888	February 12, 1891		Liberal	7th
9		Samuel Jacob Jackson MLA for Rockwood (1848–1942)	February 25, 1891	January 15, 1895		Liberal
							8th
10		Finlay McNaughton Young MLA for Killarney (1852–1916)	February 14, 1895	December 1899		Liberal
							9th
11		William Hespeler MLA for Rosenfeld (1830–1921)	March 29, 1900	December 1903		Independent Conservative	10th
12		James Johnson MLA for Turtle Mountain (1855–1929)	January 7, 1904	January 6, 1916		Independent Conservative	11th
						Conservative	12th
							13th
							14th
13		James Bryson Baird MLA for Mountain (1859–1939)	January 6, 1916	January 24, 1922		Liberal	15th
							16th
14		Philippe Adjutor Talbot MLA for La Verendrye (1879–1967)	January 18, 1923	June 12, 1936		United Farmers	17th
						Progressive	18th
						Liberal-Progressive	19th
15		Robert Hawkins MLA for Dauphin (1879–1962)	February 18, 1937	September 29, 1949		Liberal-Progressive	20th
							21st
							22nd
16		Wallace C. Miller MLA for Rhineland (1896–1959)	February 14, 1950	August 15, 1950		Progressive Conservative	23rd
17		Nicholas Bachynsky MLA for Fisher (1887–1969)	November 7, 1950	October 23, 1958		Liberal-Progressive
							24th
18		Abram Harrison MLA for Rock Lake (1898–1979)	October 23, 1958	February 27, 1963		Progressive Conservative	25th
							26th
19		Thelma Forbes MLA for Cypress (1910–2012)	February 28, 1963	December 5, 1966		Progressive Conservative	27th
20		James Bilton MLA for Swan River (1908–1988)	December 5, 1966	August 14, 1969		Progressive Conservative	28th
21		Ben Hanuschak MLA for Burrows (born 1930)	August 14, 1969	August 20, 1970		New Democratic	29th
22		Peter Fox MLA for Kildonan (1921–1989)	August 7, 1971	November 24, 1977		New Democratic
							30th
23		Harry Graham MLA for Birtle-Russell (1921–2006)	November 24, 1977	October 13, 1981		Progressive Conservative	31st
24		Jim Walding MLA for St. Vital (1937–2007)	February 25, 1982	February 11, 1986		New Democratic	32nd
25		Myrna Phillips MLA for Wolseley (born 1942)	May 8, 1986	March 9, 1988		New Democratic	33rd
26		Denis Rocan MLA for Turtle Mountain (until 1990) MLA for Gladstone (from 1990) (born 1949)	July 21, 1988	May 22, 1995		Progressive Conservative	34th
							35th
27		Louise Dacquay MLA for Seine River (born 1940)	May 23, 1995	August 17, 1999		Progressive Conservative	36th
28		George Hickes MLA for Point Douglas (born 1946)	November 18, 1999	October 20, 2011		New Democratic	37th
							38th
							39th
29		Daryl Reid MLA for Transcona (born 1950)	October 20, 2011	March 16, 2016		New Democratic	40th
30		Myrna Driedger MLA for Charleswood (until 2019) MLA for Roblin (from 2019) (born 1952)	May 18, 2016	November 9, 2023		Progressive Conservative	41st
							42nd
31		Tom Lindsey MLA for Flin Flon	November 9, 2023	Incumbent		New Democratic	43rd

References

• Biographies of Living Members
• Biographies of Deceased Members